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The Nazis started to use foreigners for forced labor in 1939 (p. 69), but especially from 1940. Goebbels stated that "Roma [Gypsies], Jews, and Poles will receive identical treatment" in this regard. (p. 13).
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There are books that become known less for their content, and more for an idea that they had introduced or popularized. This book is one of them. Lawrence L. Langer and his “Choiceless Choice” has become part of Holocaustpeak, thanks in large part to this book. My review exclusively focuses on this
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THE BLOODY APPARITIONS is the title of this Polish-language book. The geographic setting of this work is the same as that of neo-Stalinist Jan Grabowski's anti-Polish book, JUDENJAGD (THE HUNT FOR THE JEWS), which distorts events in a contextual vacuum. Adam Kazimierz Musial's work, which preceded JUDENJAGD, is incomparably better. It tells the full story of what happened in Dabrowa County, to Jews AND Poles, under the German occupation. Unlike JUDENJAGD, Musial's work includes information derived from the archives of the A. K. (ARMIA KRAJOWA). (p. 10, 27
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Other reviews of this book already inform the reader about its overall content, and I do not repeat them. Instead, I focus on specific themes. My review content is topical, and not according to the actual chronology of events.

Other reviewers already inform the reader about the content of this book, including its emphasis on Hasidism in Poland. Instead of repeating them, I focus on a distinctive item of information.

Much has been written about some Poles who, during the Nazi German occupation, had served the Germans at the expense of the Jews. However, it is also a little-known fact that some Jews had earlier curried favor with the German invaders of Poland in 1939. This book provides one such example.
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Baias.. Baias....In every war, some members of the population act in a dishonorable manner. This is nothing new. It is also very easy for those who have never been through a war to moralize about the conduct of those who did.

For technical details on this book, please click on, and read my detailed English-language review of the Polish edition, Jest taki piekny sloneczny dzien. This new English-language version is no better. It repeats the same selectively-chosen archived anecdotes, and then jumps into fantastic made-up numbers.
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"Over the past two decades, the Shoah has come to play an increasingly significant role in Israeli collective memory and civil religion". (p. 1). This book provides valuable information about the Israeli visits to Poland, covering nearly every aspect of their occurrence in encyclopedic detail. The Israeli voyages to Poland have grown from 400 visitors in 1988 to over 28,000 in 2005. (p. 249)
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This book can be useful for those readers interested in a compendium of Polish-Jewish interactions in modern Poland. Most of it, however, is standard fare (as elaborated in the latter part of my review). The most distinctive part of the book is as follows: